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Conscientious vs Plodding - What's the difference?

conscientious | plodding |

As adjectives the difference between conscientious and plodding

is that conscientious is thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well while plodding is progressing slowly and laboriously.

As a verb plodding is

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As a noun plodding is

slow, laborious progress.

conscientious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well.
    • He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.

    Antonyms

    * capricious * impulsive

    Derived terms

    * conscientiously * conscientiousness * conscientious objector

    Related terms

    * conscience

    External links

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    plodding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Progressing slowly and laboriously.

    • Derived terms

    * ploddingly * ploddingness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Slow, laborious progress.
  • * (Jean Ingelow)
    • I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow / (Like plants in dungeons, reaching feelers out), / And ploddings wary and slow.